I know lots of people who have been ill, and some who have died. Maybe when you start to see the effects on people you actually know rather than strangers you don't care about and numbers that don't seem real, you'll take it more seriously.
When anyone dies from the virus it is tragic and the numbers don't seem real if they are strangers. But that applies to any death statistic. Cancer,heart attacks,strokes,accidents,suicides are still happening everyday and each death is an individual and a loved one to those concerned.
Of course if you have symptoms you should self isolate but you may not have symptoms and so still be infectious. There is always a risk for everyone when they are in the wider world.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
I know lots of people who have been ill, and some who have died. Maybe when you start to see the effects on people you actually know rather than strangers you don't care about and numbers that don't seem real, you'll take it more seriously.
Cancer,heart attacks,strokes,accidents,suicides are still happening everyday and each death is an individual and a loved one to those concerned.
Of course, but those aren't caused by an easily spread virus that we can all do our part to contain, if we are willing to.
@FlyDragon I do appreciate that I am lucky not to have had anyone I know die of the virus, I have had more than one person I know die because of the lockdown. I have worked every working day and more during this pandemic to help vulnerable people. I am careful to socially distance myself when I am out and I have missed seeing people I love. My fiancé and I are experiencing financial hardship already, please don’t think I am not taking this seriously.
I know lots of people who have been ill, and some who have died. Maybe when you start to see the effects on people you actually know rather than strangers you don't care about and numbers that don't seem real, you'll take it more seriously.
Cancer,heart attacks,strokes,accidents,suicides are still happening everyday and each death is an individual and a loved one to those concerned.
Of course, but those aren't caused by an easily spread virus that we can all do our part to contain, if we are willing to.
That is why we take precautions and assess risk.There will be more deaths,it is inevitable.Each one is tragic but we will never be able to prevent every one.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
I really admire and are very grateful to people like Debs who are working for us, I feel no risk at all when I collect my medication, apart from wearing a mask and gloves, they are behind a floor to ceiling Perspex sheet with a tiny hole cut in it to pass the items through, there is no cash and only contactless cards to be handled.
Also only one person allowed in at a time, I think they’ve done very well with the safety.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Lyn thanks for that but the people I admire are those like my lovely sister who volunteers as a delivery driver for my pharmacy making sure people get their medication when they need it.
I know that if I became ill having been infected by someone who should have isolated, I or my family would look at taking legal action against whoever knowingly and intentionally infected me ... the precedent is there with people who have knowingly infected partners with HIV.
The Welsh Assembly are so out of touch it's unreal. I'd say over 50% of people around here are ignoring the lockdown rules now but we've been told the rules will be relaxed on Monday so we can travel up to five miles to see people from another household, outdoors, as long as we can socially distance. Households have been mingling here with no distancing since before VE day and regularly going out for the day to test their eyesight. Either show you're enforcing the rules or sort out better rules that people will actually stick to. The English are all in the news having fun at the beach and we're told we still shouldn't travel for exercise.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@Lyn thanks for that but the people I admire are those like my lovely sister who volunteers as a delivery driver for my pharmacy making sure people get their medication when they need it.
Yes, much admired, my son is very vulnerable and gets his meds delivered, his wife who isn’t has to go to the surgery to pick hers up. That doesn’t make sense to me.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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But that applies to any death statistic.
Cancer,heart attacks,strokes,accidents,suicides are still happening everyday and each death is an individual and a loved one to those concerned.
Of course if you have symptoms you should self isolate but you may not have symptoms and so still be infectious.
There is always a risk for everyone when they are in the wider world.
Also only one person allowed in at a time, I think they’ve done very well with the safety.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.